The Wilmingtonian., 1887-03-26

rible name through the massacre of
the English Bishop Huntington and
his fifty companions At that time
an officer of Gordon, contrary TO
the instructions of the latter had marched
with 800 men to the capital city of Uganda
with pronounced intention to occupy that
country Emin Effendi was sent after him
with an order to instantly bring back the de-
tachment, in which he was so successful that
not shot was fired to disturb the peaceable
relations then existing.
Ofstill greater Importance was his success in
inducing the king of Unyoro--Gordons neigh
Dor of Albert Nyanza, the lake into which
the Somerset Nile enters from the east-to
make lasting peace, for it would have been
an easy matter for this ruler to sweep Cor
don and his little troop from the face Of the
earth. In acknowledgment of these services
Gordon in 1878 made Emin governor of the
Egyptian equatorial provinces, with the rank
of bey. 1t was no sinecure which was thus
conferred upon him, and his work was not
made the lighter when Gordon soon after re-
signed his post as general governor of the
Soudan.
The slave dealers who had so long been held
down with iron rigor again raised their
heads; discomfort showed itself on every
hand, and it needed such men as Emin Bey
and the italian Gessi, who had at the same
time been appointed governor of the Bahr-
El-Ghasan, to bring order out of this general
chaos.
In less than two years most OF the stations
were rebuilt and all, about forty in number,
connected by means of a weekly postal SER
vice, and the district very thoroughly purified
of the slave dealer5. And while formerly the
equatorial provinces had required for their
administration an annual subsidy Of 93S, 900
Emin Bey three years later could show bal
ance of eS,OO0 Yet the taxes had not been
raised, only strict economy and the abolish
ment Of grave abuses had brought about this
result. Good streets had been made, wagons
built and oxen Injured to the yoke. The peo-
pie have learned to weave and the prepara-
tion Of soap and the collecting Of cotton, rice
indigo and wheat have been introduced
With all this Emin Bey has found time tc
explore most infinitely his dominion and the
neighboring countries. In his capacity o.
governor he investigated the western coun
tries of the Mwutan Nsiga, there took nev
and correct surveys and collected much ma
terial Of an ethnographical and linguisti
character.
Again, in the first half of last year he mad
second journey to the western shore of th
Mwutan, crossed the lake to Kibero, on til
eastern shore, and then returned to the Wac
elai, q little to the north Of this lake on til
left shore of the Nile.
1t is here that he has now for some tim
held his headquarters, having changed fror
Lado, which is further to the north, in hoI
Of being able to communicate from there wit
the western coast Of Africa. However, all til
attempts made in this direction came I
naught through the hostility of the suspi
ious ruler of Uganda, who, through fear
losing his dominion, will in no wise perm
the passing through of Europeans.
Nevertheless, DR.. Junker, who with Il
Italian, Capt Casati, was long the guest
Emin Bey, succeeded, by going around the te
ritory Of this much feared African potential
ingetting to South Zanzibar, and from the
to Cairo by q more western route
And in this certainly Emin Bey and 1
Italian explorer would also succeed, but En-
refuses to abandon the men Entrusted to hi
who have for SO long time stood by him
danger and peril, without wages or clothii
and with such poor fare, to the cruel +;
which would certainly be inflicted on
leaderless troops by the slave dealers. lie
tends to conduct them through the southt
country to the coast AT present, howev
this way is ohstructed. Neither Ienz !
Fischer have been able to make their way
him. What they have not succeeded in
complishing Stanley, Joseph Thomson a
the Italian, Capt Massari are now attem
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